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TransIT-funded Project:Digital Enterprise Research Institute @ LFUI:

Sustainability and Business Development

Antragssteller: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Fensel

Dr. Martin Hepp

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Goals of the Project

• Sustainability and Management Support: Make DERI @UIBK a lasting asset

• Business Development: Disseminate DERI expertise and IPR into business applications and foster high-tech start-ups based on semantic technology in Tyrol and elsewhere

• Student Exchange: Strengthen DERI‘s attractiveness for top PhD candidates by well established exchange tracks with Stanford and others

• Research on e-tourism applications of semantic technology

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Project Facts

• Start Date: January 1, 2005• Duration 36 months• Funding:

– Sustainability 396K €– Business Dev. 691K €– Stud. Exchange 310K €– Total 1397K €

• 38 „Deliverables“ with measurable results• Progress control by 3 “Milestones” (M12, M24, M36)

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Sustainability of the Organization: Establish Scientific Leadership

Scientific Director: • Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter FenselExecutive Directors:• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Strang• Dr. Martin HeppSenior Researchers and

Cluster Leaders• Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dieter Wolf• Dr. Michal Zaremba• Dr. Ying Ding• Dr. Axel Polleres• Dr. Sven Groppe

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Second Level of Scientific Management and Workforce

• 10 Senior PhD Students • 14 Junior PhD Students:

-> Candidates for Senior Position in the Future

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Strong Management Team

• Business Development• Operational Management• Human Resources

Management• Financial Management• Project Management• Public Relations• Software Development• System Administration (IT-

Department)• Event Management

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Junior Staff

Already employed 5 Master Students of the Department of Computer

Science Innsbruck:

Already employed 4 Bachelor Students of the Department of Computer

Science Innsbruck:

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Student Exchange I

DERI IBK – DERI GWY

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Student Exchange II

DERI IBK – Stanford University• collaboration on unifying framework for describing,

analyzing, and executing of services in service oriented computing

• joint workshop series called "Semantic Web Service Challenge" to start in spring 2006, and to be held in Stanford, jointly organized by DERI Innsbruck, Galway and Stanford

• collaboration with Protégé and National Center for Biomedical Ontology

• Collaboration with Department of Structural Engineer and Geomechanics on WSMO

• collaboration on Semantic Business Process Management

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Student Exchange II, facts

DERI Innsbruck - DERI Galway• 16 students/staff from DERI GWY to DERI IBK• 12 students/staff from DERI IBK to DERI GWY• Legal and administrative framework in place• Full integration of incoming students into research framework of the host institution

DERI Innsbruck – Stanford University• 3 students from DERI IBK to Stanford • 1 faculty from Stanford to DERI IBK• Legal and administrative framework in place• Full integration within Stanford Logic Group of Stanford University

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DERI Business Development

• Mission: – make the need, importance and added value of

SWS research understandable and visible for the IT industry. – Establish in DERI and academia awareness of industry

requirements and needs – act as a catalyst for applied research activities and cooperative

projects– Create and sustain added value for the IT environment

in Tyrol and Austria

• Implementation:– Recruit DERI Business Development Team– Total funding ~700K € (36 months)– Achieve self-sustained funding by end of 2007

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DERI Business Development

• Business Plan1. Cooperative Research / Development projects

• Applied research sponsored by industrial partners

• Feasibility studies

• Customized Ontology Engineering

2. Training and education activities• „Awareness“ Workshops

• Technical Tutorials

3. Product / Tools offeringsupgrade assets available in DERI into marketable quality assured components or pre-products

Details defined in 25 Milestones,to be accomplished by end of 2007

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DERI Business Development

Main Activities for the upcoming months– 3-day Ontology WS for Arcelor (Spain, Steel Industry)

Cooperative. Project set up, 5K €, Jan 2006 – Ontology / SWS „Compelling Events“ for the Industry

Start-up WS in cooperation with trans IT, Feb 2006– „Applied Ontologies“ Seminar, UIBK, Feb 2006

Ontologies Engineering Tutorials– Cooperative project with System One (Austria,

Bruno Haid): Combine Social Software with SWSProject Roadmap, 240K €, Jan 2006

– Evaluate and classify DERI assets (ongoing)

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DERI Business Development

• DERI BD Core Team– Sigurd Harand,

Senior Business Development Manager– Ilona Zaremba, BD Management and Organization– Martin Hepp, Cluster Lead,

Semantics in Business Information Systems – Michael Stollberg (BD Implementation) – Holger Lausen (DERI Tools, Tutorials)

• BD Support Team (on demand)– Researchers of DERI Innsbruck and DERI Galway– Partner Organizations

Copyright 2005 Digital Enterprise Research Institute. All rights reserved.

www.deri.org

Thank you!

Dr. Martin Hepp

martin.hepp@deri.org